Newbridge Avenue

{{Short description|Road}}

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| name = Newbridge Avenue

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| native_name ={{native name|ga|Ascaill an Droichid Nua}}

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| image = LansdowneBridge.JPG

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| caption = The New Bridge crossing the Dodder

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| former_names = Haig's Lane, New Bridge Avenue{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/saintcatherinesb01meyl|title=Saint Catherine's bells: : an autobiography.|first=Walter Thomas|last=Meyler|date=March 10, 1868|publisher=London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. ; Dublin: : Robert S. M'Gee, 35 Lower Sackville Street; and all booksellers|via=Internet Archive}}

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| namesake = The new stone bridge over the River Dodder

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| length_m = 290

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| width = {{Convert|15.3|m}}

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| location = Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland

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| postal_code = D04

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| coordinates ={{coord|53.335365|N|6.22368|W|type:landmark_region:IE|display=it}}

| direction_a = northeast

| terminus_a = Tritonville Road

| direction_b = southwest

| terminus_b = Lansdowne Road, Herbert Road

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| known_for = Ulysses

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Newbridge Avenue ({{irish place name|Ascaill an Droichid Nua|no_translate=yes}}) is a road in the Sandymount district of Dublin which links Herbert Road and Tritonville Road.

In the novel Ulysses, the funeral of the character Paddy Dignam starts here at number 9 and continues on to Glasnevin Cemetery via Tritonville Road.{{citation|title=Ulysses Annotated|author=Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman|pages=105|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X1fWCCHReoUC|year=1989|isbn=978-0-520-06745-5}}{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4OupAAAAIAAJ|title=A Topographical Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses|author=Clive Hart, Leo Knuth|year=1975|isbn=9780950414812}} The Dignams were said to live at number 9; the property was, in reality, vacant in 1904.{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hti8AAAAIAAJ|title=Surface and Symbol|author=Robert Martin Adams|year=1962|publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=61}}

Both this road and Herbert Road were built across land which once belonged to Haigs' distillery and so it used to be called Haig's Lane; the foundations of the Avenue were constructed with stone which originally came from the Dodderbank Distillery.{{citation|title=Encyclopaedia of Dublin|author=Douglas Bennett|isbn=978-0-7171-1599-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MqxnAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|pages=145}} The distillery fields at this location featured in the sensational murder of the Reverend George Wogan in 1826.{{citation|title=The Neighbourhood of Dublin: Its Topography, Antiquities and Historical Associations|author=Weston St. John Joyce, Patrick Weston Joyce|year=1913|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K40JAAAAIAAJ}} A new stone bridge replaced the old wooden toll bridge in the mid-19th century, giving the road the name of "New Bridge Avenue." Construction of houses upon this land then took place in the 1860s.{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=almgAAAAMAAJ|author=Tom Kennedy|title=Victorian Dublin|year=1980|isbn=9780906002056}}

Due to the Irish property bubble of recent times, properties on this road have risen greatly in value and, in 2006, a house was sold for €2M.{{citation|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2006/0302/1140626827623.html|date=3 Mar 2006|title=Donnybrook five-bed makes €3.66 million|publisher=Irish Times}}